The National Road Safety Council (NRSC) has raised concern over the number of young people being killed in road crashes, and the implications their deaths can have on Jamaica’s development.

The concern follows yesterday’s two-vehicle collision along the Salt Marsh Main Road in Trelawny, which claimed the lives of three people, including 15-year-old Tashanti Jones.

She was a grade 10 student of Muschett High School in the parish.

NRSC Vice-Chairman, Dr. Lucien Jones explained that with Tashanti’s death, 20 young people between the ages of 0 and 18 years have died in road crashes so far this year.

He lamented that this statistic is double last year’s figure.

A total of 294 people have died on the nation’s roads this year.

Dr. Jones also noted another multi-vehicle crash along I-95 also called Municipal Boulevard in Portmore, St. Catherine yesterday.

50-year-old security guard Carlton Palmer was killed in that crash.

Reports are that at about 5:12 P.M., Palmer was driving a Subaru Impreza along the roadway, when he lost control of the vehicle and collided with a Nissan Rogue, which swerved and collided head-on into a Toyota Probox.

A Toyota Harrier motorcar then collided into the rear of the Probox.

Dr. Jones stressed the importance of drivers staying in their designated lanes.